Responsibilities
- Develop scalable machine-learning models and optimization strategies for advertising business problems.
- Run regular A/B experiments, gather data, and perform statistical analysis.
- Collaborate with software engineers and ML engineers to deliver end-to-end production solutions.
- Improve the scalability, efficiency, and automation of ML-driven ad serving systems, including model training, deployment, and serving.
- Partner with senior stakeholders to plan and drive the ML strategy for Ad Serving.
- Build models using visual, audio, and textual ad content, including deep learning, computer vision, generative AI, LLMs, and VLMs.
Requirements
- Experience in a technical lead role delivering large cross-functional projects.
- Experience with state-of-the-art modeling technologies, frameworks, and infrastructure.
- Experience contributing to or leading ML/modeling efforts at large scale and low latency.
- Experience developing and implementing deep-learning algorithms, particularly for computer vision.
- Strong understanding of regression, classification, tree-based methods, neural networks, sequence-based approaches, and NLP methods such as Word2Vec and BERT.
- Ability to identify appropriate KPIs and objective functions.
- Ability to work independently as the inaugural Ad Serving team hire in Cambridge.
- Publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals are preferred.
- Advertising or an adjacent domain experience is preferred.
- A relevant PhD is preferred.
Benefits
- Hybrid work with in-office expectations Monday through Thursday and flexible remote work on Fridays, subject to role and office policy.
- Healthcare, mental health, financial wellness, life, accident, disability, commuter, and retirement benefits may be available depending on location and role.
- Vacation and other personal time off are provided.
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